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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2005 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2005; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2005 compilation covers 81 countries. Niger is highest, at 83.85; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 4.42. Against the 2004 compilation, 56 values changed (21 up, 35 down), 22 countries joined, 16 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2005

HighestNiger

83.85

Lowest2 countries share it

0.00

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2005 compilation, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 81 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2005 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa · 2005 reading83.85consumption2005
2RwandaRWAEastern Africa74.16consumption2005.75
3UgandaUGAEastern Africa72.40consumption2005.33
4Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia62.19consumption2005.5
5GhanaGHAWestern Africa60.89consumption2005.67
6MadagascarMDGEastern Africa · 2005 reading55.31consumption2005
7Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa · 2005 reading54.45consumption2005
8SenegalSENWestern Africa53.57consumption2005.8
9KenyaKENEastern Africa44.56consumption2005.38
10IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2005 reading41.09consumption2005
11PakistanPAKSouthern Asia40.81consumption2005.5
12South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa · 2005 reading40.70consumption2005
13KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2005 reading36.57consumption2005
14ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2005 reading32.91consumption2005
15BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia · 2005 reading32.32consumption2005
16HondurasHNDCentral America · 2005 reading31.34income2005
17PeruPERSouth America · 2005 reading25.38income2005
18YemenYEMWestern Asia22.47consumption2005.25
19GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2005 reading22.33consumption2005
20BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2005 reading18.68income2005
21VenezuelaVENSouth America · 2005 reading18.11income2005
22ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2005 reading16.80income2005
23MoldovaMDAEastern Europe · 2005 reading16.58consumption2005
24NicaraguaNICCentral America · 2005 reading16.50income2005
25El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2005 reading16.43income2005

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2005 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Niger83.85
  2. 2Rwanda74.16
  3. 3Uganda72.40
  4. 4Solomon Islands62.19
  5. 5Ghana60.89

Lowest

  1. 80Taiwanshared0.00
  2. 80Azerbaijanshared0.00
  3. 79Czechia0.03
  4. 77Luxembourgshared0.04
  5. 77Icelandshared0.04

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 4.42. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032004 → 2005

Since the 2004 compilation

What changed between the 2004 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +22 / −16countries joined / left
  • 56values changed, of 59 in both
  • 21 · 35rose · fell
  • 3unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Albania+ Bangladesh+ China+ Republic of the Congo+ Micronesia+ Gabon+ Ghana+ Iran+ Kenya+ Madagascar+ Montenegro+ Niger+ Nicaragua+ Rwanda+ Senegal+ Solomon Islands+ Tunisia+ Taiwan+ Uganda+ Kosovo+ Yemen+ South Africa− Australia− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Switzerland− DR Congo− Comoros− Egypt− Ethiopia− Croatia− India− Jamaica− Mauritania− Malawi− Thailand− Tajikistan− Vietnam− Zambia

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored
  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2005, from 2005 to 2005.

  • 75 distinct values among 81

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 0.30. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 81 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2005). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2005 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount/2005

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07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2005 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest extreme poverty ($3.00 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2005 compilation?

Niger, at 83.85, of the 81 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2005 compilation cover?

81.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2005 compilation?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2005 compilation the newest?

No. The newest held here is Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2023 compilation.

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